Cancelling all of these events sets an incredibly dangerous precedent for future outbreaks

The vulnerable groups are the elderly, and anyone who can't get hospitalization.

That second group is small, and will stay small as long as each country has widespread testing and quarantine under control, and can avoid overflowing their hospitals.

Unfortunately the US is doing very poorly with testing and quarantine. To be fair, it is impossible to do quarantine well without testing, so US failure at quarantine was largely a given after they failed at preparation, planning and testing.

But the people spreading the lies that this is just the flu and that young people won't need hospitalization, are obviously telling lies, which are obviously damaging the effort to control the spread and avoid overflowing the hospitals.

The OP to this thread is out of touch.

Yes, no one should panic.

People should be very concerned. Look what is happening in Italy and Iran. Why wouldn't it spread like that in the US?

There are a lot of Americans are obese and have medical conditions. If a lot of people get this, they will get a mild case. But if a small percentage of Americans get it who have compromised medical conditions, it adds up to a lot of people very quickly who need medical attention.

You may be healthy and not get mild case, but you could infect a 70 or 80 year old who if they catch it have 14% chance of dying. Or they get it and are completely miserable for weeks and cannot get proper medical attention.

I haven't seen any panic except for the run on toilet paper. That is just weird since it is a respiratory illness. I don't think there has been much overreaction at all.

Overreact anyone? wrote:

Harambe wrote:

They are right that you are stubborn and low information. Probably a lost cause.

Low information and lost cause? Seriously? How do you live being such a d*ck? Do people actually really like you in real life? Sorry that you only have Facebook friends.

Dude stop making me look so smart on this website.

Why are you lying? Here is Fauci saying exactly the opposite of that. TODAY.

“We would recommend that there not be large crowds,” Fauci said. “If that means not having any people in the audience where the NBA plays, so be it. But as a public health official, anything that has large crowds is something that would give a risk to spread."... "As a nation, we can’t be doing the kinds of things we were doing a few months ago,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re in a state that has no cases or one case — you have to start taking seriously what you can do now, if and when the infections will come. And they will come. Sorry to say, sad to say, they will.”

Wow, baby needs a nap, huh?

Overreact anyone? wrote:

Overreact anyone? wrote:

exactly. this is a sad state.

And the mob mentality of people attacking Bad Wigins or myself have to stop. It's ridiculous how people are reacting for seeing different opinion than theirs.

So an anonymous message board troll with a fake persona who discredits pretty much any traditional institution or information source is not being treated with the kindness and respect he deserves. You have to love what the internet has become. It's a completely alternate reality.

No. The governments everywhere are doing the wrong thing - restricting movement is very bad.. It can not only make the virus situation worse it will add disruption to everything else. The only good thing is that even good, really good, things can come out bad situations. For example, some companies will realize huge savings when they discover many employees can work from home.

fghss wrote:

No. The governments everywhere are doing the wrong thing - restricting movement is very bad.. It can not only make the virus situation worse it will add disruption to everything else. The only good thing is that even good, really good, things can come out bad situations. For example, some companies will realize huge savings when they discover many employees can work from home.

Huge expense savings with lower product demand.

OPs comment are what everyone says until it hits your town. Go take a trip to Wuhan China if it's such an overreaction.

fghss wrote:

No. The governments everywhere are doing the wrong thing - restricting movement is very bad.. It can not only make the virus situation worse it will add disruption to everything else. The only good thing is that even good, really good, things can come out bad situations. For example, some companies will realize huge savings when they discover many employees can work from home.

I agree with the 2and part there. My company scrambled to figure out a way for everyone to work from home and it's a win for both employees and employers.

Strep throat is not caused by a virus; it's from streptococcus bacteria. And I'd rather take my chances with COV19 rather than the strep.

alien observer wrote:

Strep throat is not caused by a virus; it's from streptococcus bacteria. And I'd rather take my chances with COV19 rather than the strep.

False

Reported

You’ll likely get your chance soon. FYI there are so many cases in Italy in the 20-60 year old range requiring ventilators that Italy isn’t even treating people over 60 years old or anyone with comorbidities. If you think this thing doesn’t wreak havoc on younger folks then you are grossly misinformed. The survival rate is much higher but this is nothing like the flu.

" FYI there are so many cases in Italy in the 20-60 year old range requiring ventilators that Italy isn’t even treating people over 60 years old or anyone with comorbidities. "

Where did you get that information?

fghss wrote:

" FYI there are so many cases in Italy in the 20-60 year old range requiring ventilators that Italy isn’t even treating people over 60 years old or anyone with comorbidities. "

Where did you get that information?

That article requires a subscription.

fghss wrote:

That article requires a subscription.

Then get the subscription snowflake, or look it up your f*cking self

Why should I pay for it? In any case I looked it up and as I expected Italy is not doing that, at least right now. That's the worst case. Saving life years. Another good reason to dissolve governments and allow people to create their own lives.

The OP is wrong. If anyone wishes to understand why you can read my posts over the last few days on the Trump Inauguration thread. If you are more interested in hurling insults and nonsense that is ok too. At any rate, the information is available.